Grandma's House

I guess cryogenics is a viable process after all. At least it is in the Arctic Circle.

A new type of organism discovered in an Arctic tunnel came to life in the lab after being frozen for 32,000 years.

The deep-freeze bacteria could point to new methods of cryogenics, and they are the sort of biology scientists say might exist on Mars and other planets and moons.

I can just see the scientist's face as the bacteria started moving. If it had been me, I would have freaked out.

NASA described the newfound critter as "the first fully described, validated species ever found alive in ancient ice."

"They immediately started swimming when the ice melted," Hoover told LiveScience, adding that the cryopreserved bacteria were instantly ready to eat and multiply.

How great is that? And it isn't just on Earth. They've also made a significant discovery on Mars.

The announcement of the discovery Wednesday comes just a day after a team of European researchers said they found blocks of ice just under the surface of Mars near the equator. The Europeans said the ice, between 2 million and 5 million years old, could serve as storehouses for life.

I hope they are careful with these bacteria; we don't know what they could do to a human being. We're still working on controlling the bacteria we already knew about.